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Visual Person
Feb. 19th, 2016 08:40 amI have discovered over the years that I work best to learn something when I have a visual to go with it. Not a video but photos or drawings showing the process. Video just drives me nuts. I can read through a set of directions and sort things out but give me diagrams and the like I can work my way through it.
I have also found that when I am looking for details in a costume for a puppet, I do better with a physical photo rather than an electronic photo. I can see details that I miss if all I am doing is looking at a photo online. Now if it is a clear photo, I can print it out and get my information from that but online for some reason I miss things that I pick up from the photo.
Have no idea why, but that’s the way my brain works.
When I drive places more than once, eventually I find myself using visual reference to remind me when to turn and the like. I once got lost and managed to work my way out of it because I saw a building that I had used to get somewhere else and found my way there to work my way to where I was going. This was in the time before the GPS. I still find myself picking up visual clues as to where I am.
I find things visually. Someone puts something down and can’t remember where but I have seen it, I can find it. The only object that seems to elude this is my glasses that seem to have the power of invisibility at times. I also have our bookshelves pretty much down as well.
My mind works in mysterious ways but it works for me.
I think part of it or rather maybe because of it, I read the way I do. I am terribly dyslexic but I am a very faster reader. My spelling is atrocious. I learning in college that the way I read is has been liken to hieroglyphics in that a set of letters stands for a word/concept and the order is not as important. Also working out right from left depending on the day can be a real chore and yes I know all the tricks but that doesn’t really help when the brain has decided that the concept of left and right doesn’t exist.
I can't draw or rather I can’t draw well. I just can’t see it. The closest I ever got to working it out was thanks to Bill Sienkiewicz explaining negative space to me. I could almost see it. Apparently my brain just doesn’t want to do that. I have gotten better over the years in terms of sketching things out but that’s about as far as I get. One of the reasons I did the Halloween drawing challenge this year was to give others encouragement to participate because they could look at my stuff and know they could do better.
I know what my brain can and cannot do. I know how I learn best by this point in my life. So I set things up the way I want so I can work.
I am grateful that my brain does hold a lot of information.
I have also found that when I am looking for details in a costume for a puppet, I do better with a physical photo rather than an electronic photo. I can see details that I miss if all I am doing is looking at a photo online. Now if it is a clear photo, I can print it out and get my information from that but online for some reason I miss things that I pick up from the photo.
Have no idea why, but that’s the way my brain works.
When I drive places more than once, eventually I find myself using visual reference to remind me when to turn and the like. I once got lost and managed to work my way out of it because I saw a building that I had used to get somewhere else and found my way there to work my way to where I was going. This was in the time before the GPS. I still find myself picking up visual clues as to where I am.
I find things visually. Someone puts something down and can’t remember where but I have seen it, I can find it. The only object that seems to elude this is my glasses that seem to have the power of invisibility at times. I also have our bookshelves pretty much down as well.
My mind works in mysterious ways but it works for me.
I think part of it or rather maybe because of it, I read the way I do. I am terribly dyslexic but I am a very faster reader. My spelling is atrocious. I learning in college that the way I read is has been liken to hieroglyphics in that a set of letters stands for a word/concept and the order is not as important. Also working out right from left depending on the day can be a real chore and yes I know all the tricks but that doesn’t really help when the brain has decided that the concept of left and right doesn’t exist.
I can't draw or rather I can’t draw well. I just can’t see it. The closest I ever got to working it out was thanks to Bill Sienkiewicz explaining negative space to me. I could almost see it. Apparently my brain just doesn’t want to do that. I have gotten better over the years in terms of sketching things out but that’s about as far as I get. One of the reasons I did the Halloween drawing challenge this year was to give others encouragement to participate because they could look at my stuff and know they could do better.
I know what my brain can and cannot do. I know how I learn best by this point in my life. So I set things up the way I want so I can work.
I am grateful that my brain does hold a lot of information.
